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Butterfly is right on. A home-ordered meal with some thought involved can beat the pants off a 300 dollar dinner on the town any night. Little things count here: serve the pizza/thai/mezze on real plates (can you borrow china...

(Sel Ocean) for under three dollars. The Sel Ocean is a gray salt still damp from the ocean and very flavorful, as the natural minerals have not been distilled out. Isola’s Sel Ocean is ostensibly the same as the Sel Gris...

You can try 14 dishes at Thai House Express for half that. And it’s enough food for at least six people.

I never did get around to posting on my dinner with three others at Chiado this summer, but I was disappointed. It is similar in style to La Salette in Sonoma, but significantly more expensive, particularly when the weak dollar...

. Starbucks is basically about real estate, and about calculating the maximum number of dollars that can be extracted from a quantum of space-time. It is the AOL of the physical world. Starbucks is a retail experience concept, as...

Trader Joe’s is something like In-N-Out Burger in that it grows on you. The first time you go, you get a thing or two, think it’s not all that hot, but you’re willing to give them another chance. Three visits...

Sounds like fun trips. In san antonio there are a lot of good dives. For fun local burgers The Lord’s Kitchen or Chris Madrid’s. For good soul food and fried chicken, Mr. and Mrs. G’s, I always feel like I had...

Pollo Campero is fried chicken. Peruvian chicken is rotisserie chicken. You can get a whole meal (chicken, fries, drink) for about 3 dollars. We need more places like that in Chicago. None come to mind that are truly Peruvian....

of processed cheese (essential for a Rotierre’s-type cheese burger)! Foster Farm’s whole smoked turkey breast. Cross & Blackwell’s Branston Pickle. Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix. Go ahead and laugh...it is...

C If you do not want to buy Disani that’s OK, jfood does not buy it either, since he has his own well and loves it. And Coke and Pepsi spend some serious dollars buying machines to desalinate the water, it is not a brita...

dish, they will accommodate you, rare these days. They may charge you fifty cents, they may not. Either way, for a giant bowl of soup fit for a meal, you’ll be around five dollars, a steal by Bay Area standards. They also...

Try it with some Lawry’s seasoned salt (the orange one) - my mom turned me on to it when I was a kid – part of the pre-burger-cooking ritual in our house.

Martinelli makes incredible Gravenstein apple pies. The Seghesios are great cooks too – legendary dinners prepared by Mom go for top dollar at auction and her daughter-in-law from Louisiana turns out a mean gumbo. Eggs,...

When my uncle was a teenager, he frequented a local grill. His standard order was a very rare hamburger “just warm it up.” One time the restaurant decided to play a joke on him, so they served him a raw burger. He...